Drabble

[beer_good_foamy]

For open_on_sunday's challenge "Crescent".

Cross-Cultural Exchange
Post-series

"Don't take this the wrong way, but you might need this," Buffy said, handing a cross to Leila as the vampires approached.

The Tunisian Slayer frowned. "What for?"

"Crosses repel vampires. I don't know if it's because it's a religious symbol or what, but they do. Just hold it up - "

Leila leapt at the first vampire and swiped at him with her scimitar. The second the blade touched his neck, he dusted.

"...or you could do that," Buffy nodded.

Leila held up the crescent-shaped blade and smiled. "Allahu Akbar."

Then Rebekah took out the rest with her six-pointed shuriken.

Comments

[quinara]

Oh, heeee!! This is fab on toast. :D

[ladyjane]

Delightful!

[gillo]

Nice. And it makes sense that religious symbols would work for believers. Druid!Buffy with mistletoe might be fun...

Does Buddhist!Buffy simply accept her karma and kill vampires through passive virtue, though?

I enjoyed this.

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

There's more than one way to dust a vampire.

[sockmonkeyhere.livejournal.com]

This is wonderful! Poor Buffy really was woefully ignorant about religion, wasn't she?

[elisi]

He. Nice one. Although Leila's name changed...

[rahirah]

V. awesome!

(I once spent way to much time trying to figure out a reason for crosses repelling vampires in the Buffyverse when the metaphysical underpinning of the universe seems so desperately non-Christian...)

[owenthurman.livejournal.com]

I think in the series that Willow used a cross against vampires and furthermore that vampire Willow was repelled by one. But this would be a nicer canon.

[fenderlove.livejournal.com]

Excellent! I love this concept! In a vampire mythology book that's mouldering somewhere on my bookshelf, there was a large section on how vampires could be killed according to the different areas that they came from and the religions and superstitions that surrounded the culture. One interesting point that it raised about the Western modes of dispatching a vampire was how were vampires repelled before their were crosses/crucifixes being used as holy symbols or even before crucifixion was used as an execution method. The ancient Greek vampires and the Mesopotamian vampires way back before that probably didn't fear two sticks nailed together. It's sorta fun to think about all the possibilities.

[stormwreath.livejournal.com]

Nice to see Jewish and Muslim Slayers working together in harmony. :) Although if curved-bladed swords act as Islamic crescents, wouldn't a straight-bladed sword with a straight hilt work as a cross, and dust vampires on contact as well?

[shapinglight]

For some reason I managed to miss this when you posted it. Very nice. I've always thought BtVS was way too Christian-centric, in a way that suggested they didn't actually know any other religions existed.